I'm with you JWil. I love the idea of a tall observation tower fashioned from the likes of an oil derrick. And I have no doubt that if it gets done, and most likely will not, it would not be the god awful montrosity many who post here claim it would be. It cracks me up that so many who live here wish we could be like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Austin and all the others cities that are so 'progressive'. All I can say is: MOVE THERE. Good luck finding a home that you can afford in any of those cities except for maybe Austin. Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma and will always be. Our heritage is oil, horses, cowpokes and injuns. Things are 'progressing' here, but maybe not at the rate some would like. I meet people almost everyday in my furniture store who have recently moved here. The majority of them are from California, the east coast, and from up north. I always make a point to ask them how they are liking their new life in Oklahoma. The eight years I have been in business I can only recall one person who totally hated it here. He was a young man in the Air Force and had just arrived here in the middle of August during a 100+ degree spell and was from Colorado. Anyhoo, transplants tell me how great our housing market is, how almost everything is less expensive here, how easy it is to get around town, how much better our schools are, and most of all, how unbelievably friendly us dang Okies are! Go figure. Yeah, we got some real bonehead elected officials like that Kern person and others, but I've seen some real wackos from the other side of the spectrum who run these 'progressive' places, so it pretty much evens out when you play give and take. And with that my friends, I'm taking Oklahoma

Bring on Big Gush!